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	Title	Date
	Interpreting Reliability Metrics with Confidence. The intensity of today's global energy appetite requires our industry to become increasingly demanding in terms of innovative, cost-effective technologies and day-to-day performance.	Nov 2010
	SPE 132701: Equipment Design Change Improves Cementing Operations from MODUs Operating in Rough Sea Environment: Case Histories for Two North Sea Jobs This paper details the problems encountered when attempting inner-string cementing operations from floaters operating in North Atlantic and newly designed equipment that enables mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) operators to benefit from the successful	Oct 2010
	SPE 126703: Accurate and Fast Method for Predicting Actual Top-of-Cement Depths in Eccentric Wellbores This paper addresses a first-of-its-kind flow-predictor program with the capability to accurately predict the top-of-cement and corresponding fluid velocities for a three-component mud-spacer-cement system in eccentric annuli.	Feb 2010
	SPE 127422: Cement-Sheath Wellbore Integrity for CO2 Injection and Storage Wells This paper highlights the salient engineering design features of planning a successful cementing-job operation for extended-reach drilled (ERD), carbon capture and storage (CCS) wells.	Jan 2010
	Monitoring technology enables long-term CO2 geosequestration Key to the success of long-term, cost-effective CO2 geologic sequestration is the ability to monitor for leaks, verify that the CO2 is stored permanently, and account for discrepancies. This Hart's E&P article written by Halliburton employees Ron Sweatm	Dec 2009
	Cementing Solutions Help Protect The Environment Environmental sustainability requires a re-evaluation of the strategic role of a reliable cement sheath and how it contributes to helping increase the life of the well while minimizing the impact on the environment.	Aug 2009
	Shear Rate Exerts Significant Impact on Cement Properties Recent laboratory and full-scale research has indicated that the shear rate produced in a cement slurry by a mixing system exerts a more substantial influence on slurry properties than that exerted by total mixing energy. Field mixing equipment operates at	Dec 2008
	Cementing Horizontal Wells Deposits from settled, drilled solids or weighted drilling fluid can cause high- and low-side communication channels in wells. These channels are the major causes of failure during cementing jobs in deviated wellbores. A channel filled with solids might n	Dec 2008
	Prescribing Foamed Cement Treatments in Production and Injection Wells The successful use of advanced technology in three Permian Basin production and injection wells helps identify problems that can be treated with foamed cement. This technology, which includes computer simulation (modeling), log analysis, and tracer surveys	Dec 2008
	Predicting Potential Gas-Flow Rates to Determine Best Cementing Practices Gas migration creates permanent channels in cement columns, decreasing cement strength and contributing to continued gas-flow problems. For decades, gas migration has been recognized as a threat to successful cementing operations. Extensive studies of gas	Dec 2008

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